Molefi Kete Quotes

#1. If you pretend to belong, people often think you do.

Ruth Silver

#2. Childhood is messy and beautiful.

Rachel Martin

#3. The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.

Molefi Kete Asante

#4. Your power is in your faith. Keep it and pass it on to other bloods.

Molefi Kete Asante

#5. What could be any more correct for any people than to see with their own eyes?

Molefi Kete Asante

#6. Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day?

Pope Francis

#7. The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them ...

Christina Baldwin

#8. I am sure the ocean catches fire ocassionally.

Jay Bell

#9. A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

Molefi Kete Asante

#10. As a people, our most cherished and valuable achievements are the achievements of spirit. With an Afrocentric spirit, all things can be made to happen; it is the source of genuine revolutionary commitment.

Molefi Kete Asante

#11. The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. You are both rich my friends ... And your riches are the only riches worth having, the riches of content.

L. Frank Baum

#13. I'm constantly embarrassed. I fidget and twist my hair and pull weird faces and stutter. Some days I feel quite confident, then others there's a microscopic flaw about myself physically, which will make me embarrassed to walk the streets.

Graham Coxon

#14. But when considered from the unique perspective of eternity, fame and popularity aren't nearly as important as loving and being loved; status doesn't mean much when compared to service; and acquiring spiritual knowledge is infinitely more meaningful than acquiring an excess of wealth.

M. Russell Ballard

#15. The kiss blew Zoe's socks off. It was so easy to get lost in the promise of what he offered; no wondering, wishing, worrying ... Wrapped up tight in him as she was, she felt tempted.

Jill Shalvis